realeg.bsky.social
Occupational Therapist, Democrat, blacksmith. Juice glass enthusiast, Georgian in Ohio, podcast junkie. Mom. Protect gay and trans kids, or kick rocks. There’s a fair chance you once knew me as guppy.
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Man, my replies are all over the place for this lol. I apologize for not being better at social media!
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(wait but one more thing. I work in home healthcare so I am in the car all day, and thank you so much for occupying my drive times with meaningful things to listen to ❤️)
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The important part, besides the fact that I have the coolest job in the world, is that more and more people are understanding that meaningful or creative or productive ways of filling and using a person’s time is absolutely vital to theiroverall health and well-being. And now on to my next patient!
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If a person does have a barrier to participating in the activities that make them whole and healthy, we will find a way or we will find another way.
Seriously I just got distracted with OT team spirit there. I should listen to the entire episode before I open my mouth lol
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… and belonging. Our roots are in mental health and returning soldiers post World War I. There are several areas of occupation that we address, and leisure participation is right up there up there. We are always treating the whole person, never a body part or a disorder, and
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OT is all about creative/productive/meaningful activities (“occupation” is old fashioned, but most of us don’t do anything related to employment). We use meaningful activity both to guide our treatment and AS the treatment interventions, bc we KNOW this is how people find motivation and meaning
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(Oh man, that sounds way more cranky than I am. It’s not crankiness - it’s excitement 😬)
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You could just Mad Lib that indefinitely:
“Guess we’re gonna have to go back to [noun] killing a whole bunch of us to rediscover why we started [government agency] in the first place.”
{epidemics; the CDC}, {tornados; NOAA}, {hurricanes; FEMA}, etc etc
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Also lifetime SCOTUS appointments. A lifetime is reeaaally long now, comparably.
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yeah, I don’t think we give Vanto pass on this. Unless it’s because it’s not realistic to expect him to be smart enough to know better.
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Why are we giving Vance a pass? Unless because maybe it’s not realistic to think he was smart enough to know better.
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I just mean the deal predates tariffs.
But also, that union busting in the South is serious business.
(Note: I’m a GA native living in union-heavy northeast OH)
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Cool, cool . . . except NOT in response to tariffs, and GA/AL selected in order to hire non-unionized workers. 👎
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Not to mention thousands upon thousands of jobs will be lost - from nurses and OT/PT/SLP to home care aides and xray techs and nonemergency med transport,
draining enormous amounts of money from local economies, bankrupting restaurants, stores, daycares…trickling all the way down.
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Welp. Guess I wasted that 80 bucks on TSA Precheck bc obviously I’m never flying again.